DLA News Archive

Archive: 2024

April 1, 2024

Vice director: Data analysis can help EEO team foster healthy agency culture

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Employees’ ability to understand data and use it to create solutions will help DLA meet new demands, whether in logistics operations or ensuring equality in the workplace, Brad Bunn recently told equal employment opportunity leaders.

A woman stands in front of large image of a heart. she is pointing at an area that represents heart disease. Some of the text on the slide is readable and says "Heart Attack".

April 1, 2024

Heart health subject of Women’s History Month event

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency personnel in Battle Creek, Michigan, recently celebrated Women’s History Month with a special presentation highlighting important health issues women face. The featured speaker was Nurse Practitioner Sirmara Pierce, who addressed the audience on the topic of women’s heart health.

Debra White-Johnson, chief of staff for DFAS’ Strategy and Support Directorate, was the keynote speaker for Defense Supply Center Columbus’ Women’s History Month

March 29, 2024

DSCC marks Women’s History Month

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Defense Supply Center Columbus celebrated workforce diversity March 20 during its annual Women’s History Month observance hosted by the Federal Women’s Program from Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service – Columbus.

Map of Ohio depicting the path of totality during the April 8 solar eclipse

March 29, 2024

Plan ahead for a safe solar eclipse on April 8

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States and Canada. A 124-mile-wide band in Ohio will experience a total solar eclipse.

March 29, 2024

DLA Distribution hosts Coast Guard engineering, logistics leader

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Michael Haycock, deputy assistant commandant for engineering and logistics, U.S. Coast Guard, and John Bragaw, production manager, Coast Guard Yard, visited Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Headquarters in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, and toured the facilities at DLA Distribution Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, March 27.

March 29, 2024

Women's History Month Spotlight: Jessie Parisano

During Women’s History Month, DLA celebrates women who have made an impact through their sacrifices, public service, and inspirational work.

March 28, 2024

Aviation employee shares unique art style

RICHMOND, Va. — As a window into one’s soul, art allows its practitioners to use a variety of mediums to share their life experiences with others. The medium of choice for Natalie Skelton, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation public affairs specialist, involves the technique known as “sawdust painting” – but with a twist.

March 28, 2024

DLA Distribution hosts training on layout planning best practices

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency experts recently took part in a series of trainings focused on storage efficiency initiatives that can impact and continuously improve Distribution Center storage and production operations across the network, March 18-20 at DLA Distribution Headquarters in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

Man in the cab of heavy machinery, silhouetted against a cloudy morning sky.

March 28, 2024

DLA Distribution Expeditionary team readies equipment for DEFENDER EUROPE 2024 exercise

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — The Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Expeditionary team performed an agricultural wash of vehicles and equipment, March 14 and 15, bound for Germany as part of the U.S. military participation in the DEFENDER EUROPE ’24 exercise.

Three men sit in chairs on a stage in front of a wall with a sign that says AUSA.

March 28, 2024

DLA director outlines agency’s efforts to provide solutions as Army transforms

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA works to match readiness and sustainment needs with global solutions as the Army navigates a transformative era full of challenges like contested logistics and adversarial threats.